Spokesperson Conway: Trump Is Bananas

Did you hear the news? When asked to respond to one of Trump's latest bizarre tweets, campaign manager Kellyanne Conway could offer no explanation other than the obvious: The man's nuts.
If you haven't heard about it, that's probably because I just made it up. It's fake news.
Hopefully, it will catch on.

Hey, it's Trump Time! Fake news is all the rage. It's not only normal, it's fashionable. I don't think enough credit can be given to Donald "White Power" Trump for taking this phenomenon and making it mainstream. He has been the leading purveyor of fake news for years now. Way back in 2011, when Birtherism was a mere fringe activity -- restricted solely to those afflicted with Obama Derangement Syndrome -- the Donald used his celebrity to bring that lunacy front and center before the American people.

The Donald had "heard" things and "read" things about Obama. Really bad things. Things that he apparently was sure were true because he presented them as proven fact. Like the fact that Obama's own grandmother admitted that he was born in Kenya. And how nobody ever knew him growing up in Hawaii or when he supposedly attended Columbia University. He had a bunch of other things he accused the President of. These were all proven facts. Except the only thing proven about those things -- by numerous fact-checking organizations -- is that they were all demonstrably false.

There doesn't appear to be a single phoney right-wing conspiracy theory that The Donald hasn't bought lock, stock, barrel and promoted like it had his name on it. Like how he saw "thousands and thousands" of Muslims in New Jersey celebrating the attacks on 9/11. Or how he retweeted outrageously false crime statistics that claimed 82% of white murder victims were killed by blacks when that is actually the percentage of whites killed by other whites. (If Trump has accepted those real statistics, I sure hope he is going to do something about all those white predators who are murdering innocent white people, because white lives matter most)

The Donald doesn't only repeat, retweet and spread false rumors. He fabricates his own. Remember when he claimed that he sent a team of investigators to Hawaii to investigate Obama's birth certificate? He said they couldn't "believe what they're finding". He got a lot of people wondering what sort of treachery Obama had committed. So far, he hasn't revealed Obama's betrayals. Like his decision whether or not to accept the results of the election, he's keeping us in suspense. When asked about it years later, he said he would reveal it "when the time was right". Another time he told the reporter it wasn't any of his business.

Oh Master of the Master Race, how could you do this to us? You know how this stuff is like heroin to your supporters. They're just dying to know. We're all dying to know.
Maybe if we keep pestering him about it the way he pestered Obama about the long form birth certificate, he'll finally share everything his investigators found out.

Speaking of the professional double-talker -- Kellyanne Conway -- her frequent presence on my TV and computer screens is a constant irritant. To hear her describe Trump's falsehoods, contradictions, idiocies and racist lies as honest, truth-telling brilliance is such an outrageously obnoxious insult to the intelligence of anyone listening. But what adds injury to that insult is how effective her obfuscating tactics are. She is usually able to -- if not completely bamboozle her interviewer -- escape relatively unscathed.

Her recent dust up with Clinton's communications director is a depressing example:
FIREWORKS: Kellyanne Conway vs. Clinton Camp's Palmieri: Trump Gave Alt-Right, White Supremacists A Platform | Video | RealClea
Clinton's Palmieri says she'd rather 'lose than win the way you guys did'. Conway says "I'm sorry -- how exactly did we win -- no, go for it, Jen -- how exactly did we win?" Palmieri stutters and Conway filibusters. But when given a chance to elaborate, Palmieri talks about giving the Alt-Right a platform. (That is an awful consequence of the Trump campaign but not the way they won. However, Trump did convince enough people that non-whites [Mexicans, Muslims, Blacks, the Chinese] are a dire threat to their safety and prosperity and that Trump was the only person with the courage and conviction to push these hordes back and Make America White again! What about Putin and the Russians? Oh, they're great! They're white!) Anyway, Conway demonstrates outrage, brushes the alt-right platform accusation aside and filibusters some more.

Since Conway came on board, what I've been waiting all campaign for, is someone to confront that -- I'm thinking of a word for her and it rhymes with confront -- with some of the more outrageous lies that Trump has told. I would love to see how Conway would try to talk her way out of that. This is what Palmieri should have zeroed in on, particularly his racist lies. Like -- you know -- most, if not all, Mexican immigrants are drug bringing criminal rapists, and the other lies I mention in the fourth paragraph of this post.

Being familiar with Conway's tactics, my guess is that she would have used the "best defense is a good offense" ploy. 'You want to talk about lies, let's talk about Hillary's lies.' (she's actually said things just like that) Then Palmieri could have truthfully and correctly said that Hillary didn't lie about other people and whole races and religions. And she could have stressed how terrible those lies were and how damaging and divisive they are.

Here's another thing I haven't heard brought up to her. When they talk about the popular vote and the anti-Trump protests, she says 'the elections are based on electoral votes not the popular vote', the protestors are 'crybabies and sore losers' and they should just shut up and accept the results. The Donald won fair and square.

Well, the question I would ask her, if I had the chance, is how she thinks The Donald and his supporters would have behaved had he won the popular vote but lost the electoral vote. I would love to hear what kind of double-talk she would conjure in order to answer that question. Interestingly, we know how he and they would have behaved because we have the proof, from their own hypocritical mouths. See my previous post, below.